‘Reject your soul’ (hr. Odbaci svoju dušu) uvjerljiv je vizualni prikaz duhovnoga krajolika gdje ljepota i okrutnost, želja i smrt supostoje. Reject Your Soul is an adaptation of the fairy tale by Oscar Wilde “The Fisherman and His Soul”, performed by miniature silicone puppets with live music accompaniment by ChocoJazz.

Experiments with the human body have become an integral part of modern life. It‘s time to explore the human soul: to grope it, to separate it from the body, to specify it‘s weight nowadays. After the period of performances dealing with social themes, Psilicone theatre turns back to it‘s essence: psyche (gr. soul) + silicone = psilicone. The performance is based on O. Wilde’s fairy tale “The Fisherman and His Soul”, which arguably is the most difficult of writer’s fairy tales because of its confusing mystical conception of body and soul. A young fisherman falls for a mermaid, but in order to join her in the depths of the sea he has to lose his immortal soul. Finally he sends the soul away and joins his mermaid under the sea.

But every year soul comes back, tempts fisherman wishing to move into his heart. Fascinating and moving love story turns to the fierce struggle between Soul and Heart for control over the Fisherman’s body. “Reject Your Soul” is a convincing visualization of the psychic landscape where beauty and brutality, pleasure and death, exist alongside one another.

“Psilicone Theatre” actors are miniature silicone puppets, whose performance becomes visible as a large and colourful video projection created live.A performance of “Psilicone Theatre” is a public video play with silicone characters, special image effects, texts, and personal objects. The action is supported and accompanied by music.Silicone puppets are resilient and indestructible. Bent, stretched, pulled, pressed, immersed in various liquids and paints, they demonstrate resilience and can become an example of survival in the poisonous daily life. That is how the physical characteristics of puppets determined the social themes addressed by the “Psilicone Theatre”. From 2005, “Psilicone Theatre” holds its performances in spaces untouched by art (typical courtyards of residential blocks, swimming pools of sport clubs) and traditional stages, trying by all means to meet as many untypical spectators as possible, to get to know their demands and offer them contemporary art as an antidote for the problems tormenting society.

As an artist I was seduced into performing arts because of live contact with the audience. I always felt the lack of it when working in visual arts. That’s why we are performing in places untouched by art – we like to meet people, especially those who are not interested in art, to catch them in their natural environment, to descend on them as they are: half-naked in the swimming pool or just after they’ve finished few mugs of beer in the yard of block houses. We would like to attract not only theatergoers, but also those who have no approaches to art.